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“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.”
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”
“If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied.”
“Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.”
“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.”
“The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.”
“Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.”
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“A person's wisdom yields patience; it is to one's glory to overlook an offense.”
“Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.”
“Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism.”
“Existence is as deep a verity: Without the dual, where is unity?”
“Thoughts which come at a call Are no better than if they came not at all”
“Safety is not to be secured, then, by the wisest foresight.”
“Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.”
“Open the temple gates unto my love, Open them wide that she may enter in.”
“For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood.”
“And he that strives to touche a starre Oft stombles at a strawe.”